Re: What am I missing?

[Akim Demaille]

| I have a real simple need - I want to build a simple distribution tarball
| with the VERSION variable substituted into a few files.
| 
| The following fragments demonstrate the problem I'm having with the
| larger/real package:
| 
| address@hidden> configure
| checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
| checking whether build environment is sane... yes
| checking for mawk... no
| checking for gawk... no
| checking for nawk... no
| checking for awk... awk
| checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
| configure: creating ./config.status
| ./config.status: cannot create /subs.frag: permission denied
| ./config.status: 215: Syntax error: "fi" unexpected
| address@hidden>
| 
| Here are the 3 files needed to reproduce this problem (automake-1.5,
| autoconf-2.52):
| 
| --Makefile.am:
| AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
| 
| EXTRA_DIST = README
| --README.in:
| Foo Version @VERSION@
| --configure.ac:
| AC_INIT(README.in)
| AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(Foo, 2.43)
| 
| AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile, README])

                   Makefile README